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LittleGlowingFriend 1 point ago +1 / -0

In many ways, it's because censorship and oligarchy in interwar/WWII Japan worked exactly like what we're seeing. Just with no computers.

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LittleGlowingFriend 2 points ago +2 / -0

I don't know that there's a reason ever been given, but it would be the row that sounds the most meaningless and like someone's tongue is being repressed.

While 'r'/'l' is a very common consonant for onomatopoeia, grammatical elements, and verb conjugation, few words start with it and the ones that do largely have foreign roots. They sound at once tongue-tying, slippery, luxurious, and flowery. They also live in an "lesser known" mind-space like our "wxyz" letters are at the end of the alphabet and a bit rare in usage (though "ri" is commonly understood as "reason, logic, principle").

But by then we're venturing into the psychology of "this is how sounds feel", which can be quite subjective (e.g. perhaps you don't feel that "mor" feels "morbid" like Tolkien's Mordor, instead identifying it with words like "more" and "moral"). Still, one can find sites in Japanese (particularly for parents trying to pick euphonic baby names) that talk about this topic. Search terms like 語感, 音のイメージ bring up some of this content. Even 音の印象 brings up the famous kiki/bouba experiment.

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LittleGlowingFriend 2 points ago +2 / -0

through thick and thin for four years

With all due respect, sir, it seems to me you were a friend for 3 years and 11 months of fair weather.

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LittleGlowingFriend 4 points ago +4 / -0

Biden has specifically been trying to force-meme rail travel for decades (directing pork and publicity to Amtrak in all that time and guess who was vice chairman of the board for five years?).

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LittleGlowingFriend 1 point ago +1 / -0

True, people don't say literally that (sometimes they say stuff like "your average person won't actually save for retirement until it's too late!")... they usually phrase it as wanting welfare, healthcare, etc. by which people are coerced into a codependent relationship with government.

As the Stoic or the Buddhist will tell you, it is exactly desires like this--as if the universe owes you an existence--that control your life.

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LittleGlowingFriend 1 point ago +1 / -0

I remember the anecdote about Thatcher taking out a copy of Hayek's Constitution of Liberty (576 pages), slamming it on the table, and declaring "This is what we believe." at a policy meeting.

This document is more narrowly focused: "This is what we teach our children."

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LittleGlowingFriend 4 points ago +4 / -0

This is also how commies took over unions way back when. A few provocateurs around the fringes creating an illusion of numbers and boom, anyone who's swayed by a popularity contest gets swayed to vote the crypto-commies and is maybe even thinking of kicking out the opposition.

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LittleGlowingFriend 3 points ago +3 / -0

The first guy on the list has an SS tattoo on his neck 🤔

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LittleGlowingFriend 13 points ago +13 / -0

Don't bogart that hope, my friend. Pass it over to me. ♪

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LittleGlowingFriend 5 points ago +5 / -0

He's been at odds with channers many times before (for instance, the anti-porn stance pretty much excludes most of what there is on chans).

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LittleGlowingFriend 2 points ago +2 / -0

Telecoms and MSM are joined at the hip. Chances are good that your ISP is part of this. Local Internet monopolies are a massive cash cow for these companies.

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LittleGlowingFriend 1 point ago +1 / -0

No thanks. It's the only thing preventing that nose from poking my mind's eye.

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LittleGlowingFriend 3 points ago +3 / -0

Sadly, TheRightBoycott never got much traction and was hopelessly out of date by the time "basically every single company in America" (not snark quotes, just repeating) decided on Small Businesses Won't Matter as a write-off.

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LittleGlowingFriend 3 points ago +3 / -0

I can't stand store-bought jerky. Not crisp enough, and it's been heated too much due to FDA requirements.

Now, if we're talking the long haul, pemmican is basically the perfect food if you make it right; you can live off it indefinitely, you can cook or stew it if you run across some extra victuals, it keeps a long time if stored correctly, and you can carry many days of calories on your back for hiking. Might want to add a spice mix (how about one from the 1770s?) to your bug-out bag, though. The ingredient list is very short.

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LittleGlowingFriend 16 points ago +16 / -0

"I was on staycation, covid amirite?"

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LittleGlowingFriend 8 points ago +8 / -0

Really, just asking the questions is how they nail a lot of people because they'll often start with something innocuous, simple, polite... it pressures people into feeling like an antisocial prick for not answering. This is why you should practice the mantras beforehand. Like actually read them aloud. Right now, if you can.

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LittleGlowingFriend 2 points ago +2 / -0

I hear a rumor that some accounts got the revolving-door ban after this wave. In which case it's just a way of seeing if you're smart enough to evade a ban for crimethink but dumb enough to log in from the same IP as your evade account.

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LittleGlowingFriend 2 points ago +2 / -0

Had a professor from Iran, his loyalties weren't really to anywhere (John McCain was misremembering the lyrics to a Capitol Steps parody around this time) so he just said he was a terrorist, since it wasn't remotely credible. Hilarious when he'd talk shit about the way things are run over there, though. "I have two doctorates: computer science and engineering. In Iran... I could be minister of health."

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LittleGlowingFriend 1 point ago +1 / -0

There are few phrases I despise more. It's a truism used by people who intend to excuse or inflict arbitrary harm (by which I mean J.S. Mill's "harm" distinguished from "offense"). Mob justice is not some sort of Newtonian law.

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LittleGlowingFriend 6 points ago +6 / -0

John Birch Society is advocating nullification (as in, from the 1830s) as our immediate emergency measure. That's kind of smart. Takes less balls than secession... but unfortunately, more balls than I'm seeing out of our states. I'd love to be wrong on this.

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